[MyAppleMenu] Jul 20, 2002

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=== news =============

Speed-Crazed Mac Fans Unfulfilled (Michelle Delio, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,53989,00.html>
Where is the long-lusted-after, next-gen Macintosh with a mach-speed CPU? Nowhere to be found at Macworld Expo, that's for sure.

Apple Posts New "Switch" Movies (MacMinute.com)
<http://www.macminute.com/index.shtml#020719-switchads>
Absent however, is the Will Ferrell Switch ad.

Gropu May Change Name Of 802.11 Certification (Sam Costello, Infoworld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/07/19/020719hnwifi5.xml>

On Rendezvous, TiVo, And Parliamentary Titles (The Idea Basket)
<http://www.gaeldesign.com/ib/mw0702_stuart.php>
An exclusive interview with Stuart Cheshire, wizard without portfolio at Apple Computer, and Chairman of IETF Zeroconf.

The Aisle Less Traveled: A Macworld Expo Floor Report (Nan Barber, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/07/19/macworld_ny.html>
In the absence of major players, innovative products from smaller vendors seemed to stand a little taller and do a little showing off.

=== opinions =============

OS X: It's Spreading... Fast! (Jeremy Zawodny)
<http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000080.html>

Apple Stupidity (Rush Limbaugh)
<http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_071802/content/right.guest.html>
Apple deserve to be at 5%, just as every bad businessman who lets his bias get in the way should be.

Apple Must Raise Prices - Now! (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/26297.html>
"Jobs has given away a solid suite of programs and asked people to pay a yearly fee to fully take advantage of the software."

Jaguar Pricing: Where Does It Leave Schools? (Steve Wood, View From The Classroom)
<http://www.mathdittos2.com/columns/view/v020719.html>
With one incredibly shortsighted and greedy decision, Apple has wiped away any lasting favorable impression of a company committed to education market seriously.

Shades Of Windows? (Doc Searls)
<http://doc.weblogs.com/2002/07/19#shadesOfWindows>
Ya gotta wince for the guys with the footprints on their backs.

=== reviews =============

Small Is Everything With Portable Hard Disks (Charles Bermant, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/personaltechnology/134496786_ptharddisk20.html>
It's rare that a new product needs so little explanation.

=== reader : world =============

Restating The Obvious (Daniel Gross, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2068362&device=>
Why new CEOs love bad news.

=== reader : life =============

Rebuild Downtown By Wrecking City's Worst Cartel (Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/dhenninger/?id=110002014>
New York's building code has got to go.

A Piece Of Old Downtown, Back And Brand-New (Benjamin Forgey, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35109-2002Jul19.html>
Rather than attempting to create an artificial unity, the architecture emphasizes the disjuncture between past and present.

If Media Is really AOL's Oyster, Its Biggest Peral Is Clearly HBO (Bill Carter, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/20/business/media/20TUBE.html>
Financially, HBO's impact on the overall AOL Time Warner budget has been small, but in terms of cash flow, the pay cable channel has lately shown itself to be quite agile.

Making History Her Story, Too (Felicia R. Lee, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/20/books/20LERN.html>
As a historian, Gerda Lerner has learned to take the long view.

A Question Of Discrimination (AC Grayling, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,754319,00.html>
Is it possible to believe in social equality yet defend elitism in the arts?

=== reader : expressions =============

Sacred Statues (William Trevor, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?020722fi_fiction>
They would manage. Nuala had always said when there had been family difficulties before.

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